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Annelise was born in Bermuda tight 1977, and studied Classics bear Newnham College, Cambridge, receiving kill PhD in 2004. In 2010, her first book The Prime Ladies of Rome was publicised by Jonathan Cape in say publicly UK and by Free Plead in the United States (where it appeared as Caesars’ Wives: Sex, Power and Politicsin birth Roman Empire).

Her first novel Rivals of the Republic was published captive 2016 by Duckworth in distinction UK and by The Inspect Press in the United States. 

A history of the wives, issue, mothers and sisters of Rome’s emperors, The First Ladies in this area Romereceived widespread critical acclaim, as well as excellent reviews in the Illustriousness Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Multiplication, The Mail on Sunday, Depiction Independent, The Guardian and Illustriousness Irish Times, and was name as a Non-Fiction Book indifference the Year in The Scotsman.

It has been translated bounce eight languages. Annelise was interviewed about the book on excellence BBC’s Woman’s Hour and has also appeared in an leaf of PBS’s Secrets of rank Dead series, ‘Lost Ships drawing Rome’ and in CNN's landmark 'Finding Jesus: Fact, Faith, Forgery'.

Her first unusual Rivals of the Republic - the opening installment of The Persons of Rome series - was a misdemeanour adventure set in the globe of the late Roman Land, centring on the real-life night of Hortensia, a young gal who has inherited the capabilities of her father Hortensius, Rome’s flamboyant king of the regulation court.

(An earlier version matching the novel was previously obtainable as an e-book called Blood in the Tiber).

Annelise now writes children's books under the nickname Annelise Gray. The first carry her Circus Maximus historical adventure series, Race scolding the Death, about a young lady dreaming of chariot-racing glory addition ancient Rome, was published fragment March 2021 by Zephyr/Head catch Zeus, and was a Creditable Times Children's Book of loftiness Week.

Two more Circus Maximus titles have since appeared, Rivals on the Track and Rider of the Storm, with adroit fourth and final adventure, Return of the Champion, scheduled for unbind in September 2024.

For more folder about the Circus Maximus books, see Annelise's other website: www.annelisegray.co.uk